Talk:Usability/Archives/2018

"User friendly" needs it own article
As a piece of jargon in programming, "user friendly" goes back to the 1980s if not before:

"In 1984,  the  original  idea  of  ``user-friendly''  software  helped people   to   easily   operate   word   processing,   simple   drawing,   and spreadsheet software programs." http://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=shureview

I ended up here because I wanted to know who coined the term "user friendly", or at least what its earliest known uses are. If this information is in the Usability article, it's hopelessly buried in a very long wall of text. I strongly argue that the phrase "user friendly - as separate from the general concept of "usability" - is notable enough that it needs its own Wikipedia article. --Danylstrype (talk) 06:48, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Totally agreeing with the sentiment. This is not so much an encyclopedic article as someone's class essay. The content is seemingly unaware of other articles such as


 * User interface
 * Human-computer interaction
 * Human-machine system


 * among others. As a programmer in the late '70s, I would enjoy seeing an article that actually deals with the evolution of user friendly and perhaps as well its inverse, idiot-proofing (incidentally, an article that is not yet a stub).